We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.